Drawing from the experiences of John Browne, former CEO of BP, Connect explores the recurring gap between big businesses and social responsibility and how companies can succeed by engaging with communities and adopting genuine leadership.

For anyone who strives for originality, and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation—into the meetings, post-mortems, and “Braintrust” sessions where some of the most successful films in history are made.

It is, at heart, a book about how to build a creative culture—but it is also, as Pixar co-founder and president Ed Catmull writes, “an expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible.”

“The universe doesn’t hate you, but it doesn’t love you, either. You’re just an atom in its infinite workings. The universe doesn’t care if you live, die, suffer, or thrive. Whatever your life here will mean is up to you.”

This is a book to liberate and inspire you to live your wildest dreams because, as Johnny Truant says: “if your life is to matter, it’s not going to matter to the universe”.

This book is a profound reminder that time is short and if you want to reach your goals, the sky is the limit.